Hi, all. In my recent postings to this board I mentioned that 'iptables' gave me errors like iptables v1.3.3: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Bad file descriptor Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. iptables v1.3.3: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Bad file descriptor Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. iptables v1.3.3: can't initialize iptables table `mangle': Bad file descriptor Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. ...[Repeated many times, probalby depending on how many times a script invokes 'iptables -t ...'.] I was got these errors regardless of whether I used my own firewall/NAT script or SuSE's firewall. Just to be sure, I compiled the SuSE stock kernel myself (I also wanted to "lighten it up" since it comes configured for all kinds of hardware I don't have); I still got the same errors. Then, I downgraded to the version and dependencies on the SuSE 9.3 DVD. After that, 'iptables' worked flawlessly on my SuSE 10.0. Therefore, I must conclude that the newer versions of 'iptables' are broken. It makes no difference if I install the one on the SuSE 10.0 DVD or the repositories. I suspect this problem is NOT particular to SuSE 10; therefore earlier versions of SuSE may also be affected by the "upgraded" versions of 'iptables' in the apt-get repositories. CF